Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:37:06 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New port with maintainer ports@FreeBSD.org [was: Question about maintainers] Message-ID: <20050729103706.GB73490@isis.sigpipe.cz> In-Reply-To: <20050728233334.GF1186@k7.mavetju> References: <C3B81AFDB8A5DFB5AB566CC4@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <42E81050.7090305@cs.tu-berlin.de> <66A226C3557B48ED535E3FED@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <20050727230523.GB54954@isis.sigpipe.cz> <20050728154248.GA943@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <20050728164111.GA66015@isis.sigpipe.cz> <20050728233334.GF1186@k7.mavetju>
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# edwin@mavetju.org / 2005-07-29 09:33:34 +1000: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 06:41:11PM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > Or, I'll accept the fact that my address must appear in MAINTAINER > > before you accept results of my work, but will ignore any and all > > PRs coming my way: I don't use the software in question enough to > > be a good maintainer, so I better don't waste my time. In the > > meantime, PRs for ports I have been sentenced to "maintain" hang > > in GNATS, and later the MAINTAINER either gets reset, or the port > > suffers from perpetual maintainer timeouts. > > If you're going to play silly games, expect to be played silly games > with. > > Or in other words, people will start to actively ignore your new > ports based on their experience with your current ports. Yup, and I don't want to do that. I can occasionaly spend a week or two working on a port (http://cvs.sf.net/viewcvs.py/gri/gri/doc/gri.texi?r1=1.187&r2=1.188&diff_format=u) but if I cannot promise to be a good maintainer for it for various reasons, I shouldn't be forced to. Of course, you can tell me to take it or leave it, but is that an improvement? -- How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a light bulb? You don't know, man. You don't KNOW. Cause you weren't THERE. http://bash.org/?255991
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